Our 16-year-old son had the opportunity to attend a Wilderness Medicine Institute 2 day first aid class this past weekend. Located at the 10th Mountain Harry Gates Hut in central Colorado, the intensive covered just about everything in advanced first…
backcountry skiing
Backcountry skiing is THE top subject of WildSnow.com
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Lou- Beta- I skied Montezuma basin yesterday and it was in great shape. I bashed my old Cherokee to just below the last switchback (another truck made it 100 yds. further). From there, I boot hiked to the base of…
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Vintage Backcountry Skiing Bindings – Silvretta 404 Display and Mounting Instructions
by Lou Dawsonby Lou DawsonInspired by the interest out there, we added the 404 to the virtual binding museum, and whipped up some mounting instructions and a template.
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I got an email asking why we’d not been touting the Dynafit Comfort binding improvements for this season. We indeed reported last winter on the improved front baseplate, but the report was buried in a blog post about Dynafit skis.…
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Time to whip out the lariat and rope a few of them little dawgies. Caribou get props: Snowmobilers lost big on this one, are backcountry skiers next? To ostensibly help a caribou herd, a judge recently declared 470 square miles…
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Black Diamond Covert Avalung ski pack first review for backcountry skiing